BACKGROUND:
One of the treatments prescribed for musculoskeletal patients is orthopedic shoe. The use of an orthopedic shoe is thought to produce a more typical ground reactive force pattern.
OBJECTIVES:
This study was designed to determine the influence of three heel designs of an orthopedic shoe on the ground reaction forces during walking in healthy subjects.
STUDY DESIGN:
Quasi-experimental.
METHOD:
In total, 30 healthy adults (12 males, 18 females) walked at a self-selected pace for six trials in each of the three shoe conditions having three different heels which included the following: standard heel, beveled heel, and positive posterior heel flare.
By Daryabor A, Saeedi H, Ghasemi MS, Yazdani M, Kamali M, Nabavi H, Curran S, Amini N 